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The Cure's Robert Smith is "f***ing angry" the band's label wouldn't let them release a double album.
The 'Friday I'm In Love' hitmakers are set to release '4:14 Scream', the band's first LP in six years and follow-up to 2008's '4:13 Dream', but frontman Robert is annoyed the songs weren't included on the first record.
He told NME magazine: "It was just pure bloody-mindlessness why the tracks weren't included on the last album. I was so f***ing angry that [the label] wouldn't release a double album. I wouldn't give them the other songs."
The new album features music recorded by Robert, along with bassist Simon Gallup, drummer Jason Cooper and guitarist Porl Thompson, who no longer plays with the band.
It's the first release since the addition of former Tin Machine musician, Reeves Gabrels, who is now on guitar, and keyboardist Roger O'Donnell, who joined them at the recent Royal Albert Hall gig in London.
Robert continued to NME magazine: "There were a number of reasons why I felt unable to complete what we were doing with the last line-up. It was impossible to just get another group and bang out the songs we didn't release. It would have been wrong."
Meanwhile, the new line-up plan to record their own new album and insist it will be something "that's really different to anything else we've done".

Glastonbury organisers insist they can't reveal the festival's final headline act until May due to "contractual reasons."
Festival boss Michael Eavis has already confirmed Arcade Fire and Kasabian to play on Friday, June 27 and Sunday, June 29 but his daughter Emily insists they can't announce the Saturday headliner until next month.
When asked about the final name, she told BBC 6 Music: "We can't give you that yet. We're under ... It's just for contractual reasons, but it'll be with you soon. We've got it all booked, it was all confirmed a couple of weeks ago. It's purely that we can't give it to you yet. The full line-up, the thousands and thousands of acts playing across the hundreds of stages, will be with you in May. This is just 80 or 90 bands, a few hand-picked to give you a taster."
The festival line-up at Worthy Farm this year also includes Lily Allen, Lana Del Rey, Blondie, Robert Plant and Jack White.
Emily also hinted that the former White Stripes hitmaker will not be appearing at any other UK festivals other than Glastonbury.
She said: "Getting Jack White was a really big deal for us. He's got a history here that goes way back and obviously he's had some brilliant moments here across all the stages.
"When he said he wanted to play here and didn't want to do any other UK festivals, we were really excited. Having him here on a big Pyramid [stage] slot will be just right - he's obviously got all the songs."

Tinchy Stryder's new music is inspired by Kendrick Lamar.
The British rapper has been hard at work on his new album and has been putting together a comprehensive collection of songs, which he says have been loosely influenced by the US hip-hop icon.
Speaking at the F&F Autumn/Winter 2014 fashion show at London's Somerset House, he exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "It's going really good, I would say the album is finished but it's never finished! A couple of days ago I went to the studio to record a new track. This time I'm being more picky. Even if a song is good, if it doesn't fit with the rest, it's out.
"Someone who has really inspired me is Kendrick Lamar. Not many albums I can listen to start to finish, his are like a journey. This album might be my fourth, but it feels like people are just are getting to know me. I'm starting to open to up."
The 'Number 1' hitmaker also revealed he would love to work with N-Dubz star Dappy for a third time, but remained coy as to whether fans could expect another collaboration on his new record.
Tinchy said: "I love N-Dubz, they're cool. I did 'Spaceship' with Dappy after 'Number 1'.You never know, we might end up in the studio and make something. Me and Dappy have got that connection, so who knows..."
The 27-year-old star isn't a fan of the overly-sexualised portrayal of women in hip-hop and says he won't be going all 'Blurred Lines' in his next music video.
He mused: "Hip-hop videos have always had that culture to it, but here in the UK you don't really see that a lot. I think it depends how you put yourself across. If you allow yourself to be portrayed in a certain way then you can only blame yourself ... I feel like when there a woman that respects herself, I respect them."
Tinchy was joined by stars including Billie and Sam Faiers, Amy Willerton and Sophie Ellis-Bextor at the F&F fashion show last night (03.04.14) to watch their new mens and womenswear collections go down the runway.

Aerosmith will tour with Slash this summer.
The 'I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing' hitmakers are heading out on the road with the musician for their 'Let Rock Rule' tour and Joe Perry confirmed the news in a YouTube video today (04.04.14).
He said: "A couple of days ago I tweeted that we were going out on the road this summer with Slash and now it's absolutely official, tickets will be going on sale real soon.
"The name of the tour is Let Rock Rule and you're going to be hearing a little more of that coming up real soon, see ya then."
Dates and venues for the tour are yet to be finalised and guitarist Joe has been posting photographs of graffiti he's painted on walls in downtown Los Angeles, with the tag 'Aerosmith', ahead of their upcoming tour.
The band - also made up of Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Steven Tyler and Joey Kramer - released their first set of all-original material in 11 years, 'Music From Another Dimension', in 2012, and toured for about a year after its release.
Joe also recently revealed that he will publish his autobiography in October, titled 'Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith'.

Kasabian will headline this year's Glastonbury festival with Arcade Fire.
The 'Fire' hitmakers will close the event at Worthy Farm on Sunday, June 29, joining headliners Arcade Fire on Friday, June 27, while the Saturday headliner is yet to be announced.
Kasabian - made up of Serge Pizzorno, Chris Edwards, Tim Carter and Ian Matthews - will make their debut at the festival ahead of the release of their new album and Serge insists he can now "die a happy man".
He told NME.com: "We knew we were in the running which was amazing. Being in the running is fine but you don't want to be in the race, you want to win it. You want to be on the podium. We got the phone call - I felt relieved because we've always wanted to do it from the first rehearsal, day one of the first rehearsal. We kicked into a tune and sort of went, 'Glastonbury!', a full on shout out."
Festival founder Michael Eavis had promised this year's festival would feature fresh headliners and rumours are Prince could still be announced for the Saturday night.
Michael's daughter Emily Eavis said: "We always take great pride in putting a great British band on to headline the Pyramid [stage] and this time it's Kasabian, who are one of the most requested bands from Glastonbury-goers and an amazing live act. It's going to be one hell of a show!"
Kasabian join 87 names added to this year's line-up, which now includes Elbow, Pixies, MIA and Skrillex.
'Where Is My Mind?' hitmakers Pixies have not performed at the festival since 1989 and are set to release their fifth album, 'Indie Cindy', their first record in 23 years.
Dolly Parton, Jack White, The Black Keys, Robert Plant, Lily Allen, Blondie, Lana Del Rey, Disclosure, Paolo Nutini, Manic Street Preachers and Ed Sheeran are also on the bill for the event.
The festival has already sold out but a re-sale of tickets that have been cancelled or refunded will go back on sale to the public at the end of April visit Glastonbury.seetickets.com for more.

Klaxons have teamed up with some of the biggest names in the dance world for their new album 'Love Frequency'.
The band - made up of Jamie Reynolds, James Righton and Simon Taylor - have been working with The Chemical Brothers' Tom Reynolds, James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem and electro DJ Erol Alkan for their new record, which is out on June 2.
Guitarist Simon, 31, told the Daily Star newspaper: "We've hand-picked our heroes to produce us, and they were all up for it. I don't know how we've blagged this."
The new album comes four years after their last release 'Surfing The Void' but Simon insists they've been busy.
He explained: "We've not stopped, but it's been an ongoing process of tweaking songs.
"We don't go into the studio and come out at the end of the day with a song. We make multiple versions with our producers.
"We want to define ourselves as an oddball pop band."
The new album is the first time The Chemical Brothers have produced a band and Simon is incredibly grateful to have had Tom on board.
He added: "It's an absolute honour. But us being Tom's first production work feels like there's a lot at stake for Tom as well.
"His studio is like a spaceship, and he gave us a psychedelic Czech vocal sample to work with. That was a new way to write."
The band's latest single 'There Is No Other' is out now.

Paolo Nutini says "walking on stage scares the s**t" out of him.
The 'Last Request' hitmaker - who will be on tour in the UK between May and June this year - insists his "nerves" drive him to take to the stage despite fears about performing in front of an audience.
He told The Sun newspaper: "It's a challenge stepping out in front of all those people. It's never felt entirely natural and I don't think it ever will.
"Walking on stage scares the s**t out of me, big time. But it's not a bad thing because those nerves drive me. Now I'm ready for it."
The star found "success" difficult to come to terms with an often has to "disappear" to find space to take it all in, much to the frustration of friends and family.
He explained: "I needed to try and experience something else. The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much I just have to disappear, to sort my head.
"It frustrates friends and family, they start to take it personally and it really isn't like that. They're getting used to me when I vanish to deal with stuff."
Paolo's biggest fan is his mother, Linda, and he wrote 'Looking For Something' for her, but still hasn't had a chance to play it to her yet.
He added: "I'd already written a song about my dad so owed Mum a tune.
"I think she is just happy that I'm back singing because she gets to go to all the gigs and hotels.
"She came to Dublin and is already asking when am I going back to Vegas so she can come too.
"She turned up a night early at a recent show in London.
"And I still haven't had the chance to play her that song properly.
"She's heard it played live twice but I've still not played her the finished version. I'm waiting to give her the record."

Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis thinks Led Zeppelin will reform again one day.
The music festival chief would like to see the classic rock band headline the event at Worthy Farm and is adamant they will get back together to take to the stage.
Asked if the group would ever reform, he told radio station Ireland AM: "That will happen one day - I'm sure of it. They will do it."
The band - made up of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones have turned down a number of offers and their last big show was at London's O2 Arena in December 2007, where they were joined by drummer Jason Bonham, son of the band's late John Bonham.
Michael also made a cryptic comment about an act who he would never invite back to play at Glastonbury again, although he only referred to them as a band from Manchester "who aren't famous any more ... they fell out".
Meanwhile, the team behind the festival have confirmed a number of acts who will play this year, including Lana Del Rey, Arcade Fire, Dolly Parton, Lily Allen, Disclosure, Blondie, The Black Keys and Warpaint.
They will release the full line-up for the event later this month.

Yes bassist Chris Squire is writing his autobiography.
The 66-year-old musician, who rose to fame in the progressive rock band in the late 1960s, has been working on his memoirs with actor friend Vincent Gallo and hopes to sign a publishing deal within the next year.
He exclusively BANG Showbiz: "I sit down with him, we talk, we record it, then he goes and transcribes it.
"We're about half way through that and have been working on it for about a year.
"We have to schedule time, he lives in Los Angeles and I live in Phoenix in Arizona. We have to find time to do it, sometimes I'll go to him, sometimes he comes to me."
Having previously spoken about his experiences with LSD and marijuana during the 1960s, the book is expected to detail crazy nights on the road as well as chapters about his earlier life and his love of music.
Chris explained: "It's a general overall conversation about my life. Hopefully within a year we'll be able to wrap it up and get it out there. We haven't signed a deal yet, we'll get it written first, I've talked to various people about doing it before.
"I'm sure there will be juicy stuff in there but [groupies] is not going to be the main aspect."
He joked: "Let me see ... there were probably three or four thousand [though]."
The band - which has had a number of line-ups over the years and features new frontman Jon Davison - were also in talks about a Broadway musical but Chris insists there are no plans for it to go ahead at the moment.
He said: "It was a good concept but it's like any Broadway show, it's on six or seven nights a week, you have to put bums on seats for that amount of time. You never know with these things, it could work, it might not work."
Yes will release their new studio album 'Heaven and Earth' on July 8.